I remember when I was a kid and teenager growing up we had the best malls.
Malls are something that is becoming more and more scarce today because of the change of the times and especially the internet killing retail stores.
Today’s generation and even the one before that would know nothing about the joys of going to the mall when I was young! I remember they had this one big fountain where people would throw pennies in and make wishes. That was really awesome. It was right by this food court that had the best fast food places too. I remember watching folks throw pennies in the fountain while eating lunch. One time I noticed a heating and air conditioning specialist messing with and taking apart the air vents of the commercial heat and a/c system by the fountain. They had the air vents in the floors. It turned out that several pennies that people threw missed the fountain and ended up piling up in the air vents of the commercial heating and air conditioning system! I guess what they were doing was cleaning them out before they got into the ductwork and jammed up the entire HVAC flow within the mall. That would have caused them to have to close down for a day or more. Fixing commercial heating and air conditioning is nothing like residential heating and air conditioning systems. Ahh the memories of the mall! Things like this are so original and crazy you can’t make them up! I really miss malls and the way they were back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Kids today just don’t know what they missed out on.